Archive for May, 2009

Memo to my party: Blasting targets like Sonia Sotomayor and Colin Powell is a surefire strategy to guarantee our extinction.

and:

We should be on our knees praising Colin Powell for declaring that he has not, despite the desire of some narrow and vocal forces within the GOP, left the party. Because if he does, we might as well turn the lights out.

This guy and so many others are exactly WHY the GOP is losing. Throw him and Lindsey Graham and Tom Ridge and John McCain out of the bus, run them over a few times and then kick their ass for good measure. Then and only then will the GOP start to actually win.

letter to the editorMy name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business.

We currently employ 50+ people and before the economic slowdown we employed over 70 local people. We are active in the community and the local chamber of commerce. We deal with several dozen local vendors on a day to day basis and many more during a month. All depend on our business for part of their livelihood. We are financially strong with great respect in the market place and community. We have strong local presence and stability.

I work every day the store is open, nine to ten hours a day. I know most of our customers and all our employees. Sunshine Dodge is my life.

On Thursday, May 14, 2009 I was notified that my Dodge franchise, that we purchased, will be taken away from my family on June 9, 2009 without compensation and given to another dealer at no cost to them. My new vehicle inventory consists of 125 vehicles with a financed balance of 3 million dollars. This inventory becomes impossible to sell with no factory incentives beyond June 9, 2009. Without the Dodge franchise we can no longer sell a new Dodge as “new,” nor will we be able to do any warranty service work. Additionally, my Dodge parts inventory, (approximately $300,000.) is virtually worthless without the ability to perform warranty service. There is no offer from Chrysler to buy back the vehicles or parts inventory.

Our facility was recently totally renovated at Chrysler’s insistence, incurring a multi-million dollar debt in the form of a mortgage at Sun Trust Bank.

HOW IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CAN THIS HAPPEN?

THIS IS A PRIVATE BUSINESS NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY

This is beyond imagination! My business is being stolen from me through NO FAULT OF OUR OWN. We did NOTHING wrong.

This atrocity will most likely force my family into bankruptcy. This will also cause our 50+ employees to be unemployed. How will they provide for their families? This is a total economic disaster.

HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

I beseech your help, and look forward to your reply. Thank you.

Sincerely,George C. Joseph

President & Owner

Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu

Thank you President Obama. Thank you to all of you people who voted for him. THIS is what you get. A Government that is taking over private businesses and closing them. A Government that takes from one, by force, and gives to others. Then again, this is exactly many Liberals such as the crybabies who post comments to my site. They embrace things like this.

Kinda makes you sick, doesn’t it? I have yet to hear any sort of solid defense for all this socialism. Doubt I ever will.

Oh, my. You have got to love the hot water that Nancy finds herself in now. Democrats want to drag Bush in and to file war crimes charges against him but now, it seems that one of their leaders knew about all this so called “torture” as well. Oh, the joy of it all!!

“We were not — I repeat — were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used.”